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12/1/12 Near Shore Tripple Tail and Small Gags

Ran out of Fort Myers on Sunday with Michael on a 6 hr Near shore trip. Picked up a few dozen shrimp and netted spent a half hour netting a few pilchards to bolster our success chances.

Anchored on some rubble 4 miles out and starting hammering the gags in various sizes. Nothing special. Used large gulp and pilchards. Once the sun came up we set out on our target species. Ran to about 11 miles in search of the oddball. Caught 15 or so and probably saw over 50 fish. Caught them on both pilchards and live skrimps (thats for you Drew)

One pictured ate a live handpicked shrimp. (Broke tail to release scent and keep shrimp from fleeing)

Finished with an hr or so inshore on a pretty low tide. Managed a small inshore slam. Nothing picture worthy.

Nice , yeah the Grouper are moving in , lost one on a near shore ledge yesterday morning off of Bonita , was not ready for him seeing I was looking for Pomps , sure did test the 8 lb out ,,,, and yeah the Trips are fished out inshore , we picked up 6 all shorts , ran out to 30 feet and saw some bigger ones but they were shy , great report